Curling-iron heater



Apr! 17,1923. 1,452,163

H. G. LEVY GURLING IRQN HEATER Filed March 14. 1921 HENRI LE E I, l

' a'or ze y Patented Apr. 17, 1923.

UNITED STATES HENRI G. LEVY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

o CURLING-IRON HEATER.

Application filed March 14, 1921. Serial No. 451,938.

To all whom it may concern:

-Be it known that I, HENRI G. Lnvr, a citizen of the United Stat-cs, and a resident of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have made a new and useful invention-to wit, Improvements in Curling-Iron Heaters; and I do hereby declare the following to be full, clear, conelse, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates particularly to an improveed curling iron heater.

The principal object of this invention is to provide a mechanism that will heat a curling iron as efliciently as if introduced into a flame, but. at the same time will eliminate the possibility of dirt, rit or grime accumulating on the iron and avoiding the necessity of cleaning before using.

A further object consists in providing a curling iron heating means that will be self indicating when heating energy is connected therewith and will thus give visual notice to prevent excessive losses of heating energy. A further, object consists in providing a heating device that will be superior in point of simplicity, inexpensiveness of construc tion and positiveness of operation. Other objects and advantages will appear as this description progresses.

In this specification and the annexed drawings, the invention is illustrated in the form considered to be the best, but it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to such form, because it may be embodied in other forms, and it is also to be understood that in and by the claims following the description, it is desired to cover the invention in whatsoever form it may be embodied.

In the accompanying one sheet of drawings,

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a curling iron heater constructed in accordance with my invention and partly broken away to show the interior construction thereof.

Figure 2 represents an end elevation of Figure 1 showing an automatic locking means pivoted and disposed eccentrically to the axis of the heating element.

In detail the construction illustrated in the drawings comprises an insulation member 1 acting as a base or support for the end standards 2 and 3 of the heater and secured thereto by means of screws or other equivalent and appropriate fastening means.

The standards 2 and 3 are adapted to be mounted on the insulation bases 1 in spaced relation and on each of the inner faces thereof are provided with annular ring-shaped grooves or depressions i and a sn'ialler annular groove 5 concentric and within said depression 4:. A heating element preferably consisting of a hollow refractory member 6 and having an electrically energized heatin coil 7 thereon is adapted to have the ends 8 and 9 thereof mounted in the depression 5 within the standards 2 and 8. Although the heating coil 6 is illustrated as an openendcd cylindrical member, it would be clearly within the purview of this invention to make the same rectangular in cross-section and hollow for the purpose to be hereinafter described in detail. A protective shield 10 is adapted to entirely enclose the heating element and protect the same from extraneous elements cont-acting therewith and hasthe ends 11 and 12 thereof mounted in the ring-shaped depression a in the respective end standards 2 and 3 The standards 2'and 3 have openings 1 and 15 therethrough registering with the hollow interior of the heating element so as to form a flush connection at the meeting point. The standards 2 and 3 are provided with suitable projections 16 and 17 to which the terminals of the energy conduit member would be secured and from which leads would be extended to a suitable controlling switch. 7

Although the heater described consists of a single, hollow unit and is heated by electrical energy, it would be clearly within the purview of this invention, to modify the same so as to have the element 6 heated by means of hot gases or fluids; to increase the number of hollow heating elements for re ceiving a plurality of curling irons or other articles to be heated; or to mount either the single heat unit or plurality of units in va rious other forms and manners than that illustrated.

An annular latch member 20 provided with a peripheral projection 21 and having a pin 22 extending t-herethrough is adapted to be pivotally mounted on the end standard 2 substantially as shown in Figure 2. The annulus 20 would be approximately of the same external width as the end standard 2 and would also be provided with a central opening 24 concentric with the opening 14 in the end standard and registering with the iii hollow interior of the heating element. The pivot pin 22 is placed eccentric to the axis of the heating element so that the annulus 20 may be pivotally moved relative thereto so as to place the opening 24 in said annulus in registr with the opening lt -aforemen tionecl. fl suitable projection 25 is mounted on the exterior of the annulus 20 for the purpose oflimiting its pivotal movement in a direction to place it substantially concen- V trio with the axis of the end frames and heating element. Normally the annulus 20 is adapted to lie eccentric to the axis of the end standards and heating coil, as shown in Figure 2,'so that a smallelliptical-shaped opening will be provided between the partially registering opening2'4; in the said annulus 20 and the openingl in the endstandards 2.

ficient andonly results in heating the opposite ends of said iron that contact with the heating element and not the intermediate portion. My invention contemplates inserting the end 32 of that part of the iron to be heated through the opening 24in the latch annulus 20, pivoted in the end of the's-tandard '2, by contactingthe saidrounded end 32 of said iron with the inwardly beveled anparallel to that of the axis of the heating element. V

Having thus described this lnvention,

what I claim and desire to secure by Letr ters Patent is:

1. A device such as described comprising an open-ended cylindrical. memb'erhaving a heating means connected therewith an annular member disposed on an end of "said element and normally adapted to lie eccentric with the axis of said cylindrical element; said annular'memberbeing adapted'to engage an articleto be heatedand to position the same substantially parallel to the axis of said cylindrical member. I

2. A device such as described comprising a cylindrical element having an electrical heating means connected therewith; annulus pivotally mounted'on the end 'of'said cylindrical elementand adapted to lie'across the axis of said cylindricalelement.

3. A devicesuch as described comprising a hollow element having a heating means connecting therewith; a latch pivotally mounted on the end ofsaid hollow element and adapted to move across the axis thereof to position an article tobe heated in "said hollow element. 7 I

Intestimony whereof, I have hereunto. set my hand at San Francisco, California, this 8th" day of March, 1921.

v HENRI Gr. LEVY. In presence of- LINCOLN V. JOHNSON. 

